Villages at the foot of Mount Kamenik

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Heading northwest now, we visit the villages of Exohi, Pixaria and Agia Varvara. Here, we will meet the well-known “Tree Church of Agios Paisios” and Amarantos village with our final destination being the famous Amarantos Baths, 4 kilometers just outside the village and close to the Greek-Albanian border.

Exohi

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Exohi is built amphitheatrically overlooking the River Sarantaporos and Mount Koukos (an area with dense oak forests). The old name of the village was Zelista. It is a mountainous village with an altitude of 720m…

PIXARIA

Πυξαριά, Κόνιτσα

At a distance of 18 km from Konitsa, on the southern slopes of the peak “Tsouka-Koula” (altitude 1529 m) and at an altitude of 880 m, is the old settlement of Kleidonia. Today the settlement…

Agia Varvara

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The village of Agia Varvara is built on a beautiful green slope (north-east) of the Goritsa hill, 22 km away from Konitsa and at an altitude of 720 meters. Agia Varvara belongs to the Municipality…

Amarantos

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Amarantos is built on the slopes of Grammos, in the south of the peaks of Kamenik (at an altitude of 2,042m) and Maria (1637m) and it is among a rich forest of oak, beech and…